Diplomatic Service

John Stanley: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in which UN member states the UK has no resident British Ambassador or resident British High Commissioner; and from which country British diplomatic representation is provided by accreditation in each of those countries.

Gillian Merron: There are 54 UN member states in which the UK has no resident British ambassador or resident British high commissioner. They are shown in the following table with details of from where British diplomatic representation is provided by accreditation.
	
		
			  UN member:  Accredited: 
			 American Samoa New Zealand 
			 Andorra Spain 
			 Antigua and Barbuda Barbados 
			 Bahamas Jamaica 
			 Benin Nigeria 
			 Bhutan none 
			 Burkina Faso Ghana 
			 Burundi Rwanda 
			 Cape Verde Senegal 
			 Central African Republic Cameroon 
			 Chad Cameroon 
			 Comoros Mauritius 
			 Congo (Republic of the) Democratic Republic of Congo 
			 Cote d'lvoire Ghana 
			 Djibouti Ethiopia 
			 Dominica Barbados 
			 East Timor Indonesia 
			 El Salvador Guatemala 
			 Equatorial Guinea Nigeria 
			 Gabon Cameroon 
			 Grenada Barbados 
			 Guinea-Bissau Senegal 
			 Haiti Dominican Republic 
			 Honduras Guatemala 
			 Kiribati Fiji 
			 Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan 
			 Laos Thailand 
			 Lesotho South Africa 
			 Liberia Sierra Leone 
			 Liechtenstein Switzerland 
			 Madagascar Mauritius 
			 Maldives Sri Lanka 
			 Mali Senegal 
			 Marshall Islands Philipines 
			 Mauritania Morocco 
			 Micronesia (Federated States of) Philipines 
			 Monaco France 
			 Nauru Fiji 
			 Nicaragua Costa Rica 
			 Niger Ghana 
			 Palau Philipines 
			 Paraguay Argentina 
			 Saint Kitts and Nevis Barbados 
			 Saint Lucia Barbados 
			 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Barbados 
			 San Marino Italy 
			 Sao Tome and Principe Angola 
			 Somalia Kenya 
			 Suriname Guyana 
			 Swaziland South Africa 
			 Togo Ghana 
			 Tonga Fiji 
			 Tuvalu Fiji 
			 Vanuatu Fiji